#SportingArchives Does anyone remember playing nipsy? Or the similar game Knur and Spell? A sport regularly played by mining communities and referred to as 'poor man's golf' #Archive30

#SomethingScary for Day23 of #Archive30

Mummies on the run....

Corah's employees on a sponsored run. Did you work at the factory? We have a large collection of photographs and documents.

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Happy St George's Day!! 󠁧󠁢󠁥 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

We are assured that no humans were injured during The Mayor's Parade in 1976. Were you there?

If you aren't already make sure you're following Barnsley Archives & Local Studies who are sharing a video featuring a 1960s dragon....

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Happy #StGeorgesDay

From our film archive, a production of 'Merrie England' performed by the Barnsley Operatic Amateur Society, the Civic Hall on Eldon Street in November 1962

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This month we are celebrating 50 years of Barnsley Council by looking at some council buildings.

Do you remember the County Way offices?

#ArchiveSustainability
The first bottle bank in the UK was introduced by Barnsley's Stanley Race, chairman at Redfearn's Glassworks in 1977

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#HealthArchives is the #Archive30 theme today.

Here are a few photographs of Barnsley Beckett Hospital. You can read about early healthcare in Barnsley in this blog
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#NationalTeaDay The tea pavilion in Locke Park,1911 Friends@Locke Park

Good luck to everyone running the London Marathon today!

Dave Allemby took part in the first race in 1981, hear some of his running memories in this episode of Barnsley Museums Natters

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Good luck to everyone taking part in the #LondonMarathon today! Here's a photo of a Barnsley Six Race, do you recognise anyone? Can you work out the year it was taken?

#SomethingSmall Barnsley chartist John Hugh Burland's handwriting was tiny! Our volunteers have transcribed over 2.5 million words of his work! You can view the index to his annals here: experience-barnsley.com/our-archives/c… and read our blog
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#TravelArchives Vehicle registration in Barnsley started in 1913 when the County Borough of Barnsley was created.

Thomas Thornley Taylor of Dodworth Grange is credited with being allocated HE 1

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Have you listened to our new podcast yet? We're reflecting on 40 years since the Miners' Strike

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Follow the above links or search Barnsley Museums in your podcast provider to hear an archive interview with Michael Taylor who shares his memories.

For #ArchiveTravel Here are a few of of our favourite travel related images...

🚍 Barnsley bus station in 1938
🚋 Trams in the town centre in 1902
🚉 The flying Scotsman, 1970

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A lovely shot of the rather smart new interior of Lodge & Son's newsagents, Eldon Street, Barnsley c.1955.
(next to the Gaumont). From my picture collection.
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